What colour is sand from the amazon river?

[Kristian Tombs]

All in the question ^

 

[billsey420]

I just read yellow from a quick search on google

 

[Kristian Tombs]

I just read yellow from a quick search on google

Okay I doing a South American river biotope tank and didn't know whether yellow or white sand was more suitable.

So maybe something like play sand?

 

[billsey420]

I'm still looking but from google image it looks like they have all different colors

 

[Dallascowboys16]

The amazon river contains brownish grey sand with a mixture of smaller grains along with larger gravel type stones. Maybe do 4 parts sand with 1 part natural tan colored gravel.

 

[Kristian Tombs]

The amazon river contains brownish grey sand with a mixture of smaller grains along with larger gravel type stones. Maybe do 4 parts sand with 1 part natural tan colored gravel.

I was going to do two inches of fine gravel on the bottom for plants to root in and a inch layer of sand on top of that.

 

[Kristian Tombs]

Any ideas?

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

Depends on the actual location but typically brownish greyish orangish like the color of the water you see on tv. The soil has a lot of clay in it. I would say a natural tan sand is your best bet.

 

[Kristian Tombs]

Depends on the actual location but typically brownish greyish orangish like the color of the water you see on tv. The soil has a lot of clay in it. I would say a natural tan sand is your best bet.

Is play sand natural tan. Would white river sand be too bright?

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

I'd say play sand or pool filter sand would do the job.

 

[Kristian Tombs]

I'd say play sand or pool filter sand would do the job.

Apparently play sand is hard to clean and where can I get pool filter sand?

 

[severum mama]

Pool supply store

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

Pool supply store

menards is where I got mine

 

[Kristian Tombs]

menards is where I got mine

I live in England

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

Then anywhere you can get pool stuff like severum said

 

[Kristian Tombs]

Then anywhere you can get pool stuff like severum said

Okay I'll have a look around